Hi Michael,
I was looking at FEA. I contacted Cubit for the meshing, but they want big dough and didnt respond to my request for an eval extension. I was looking at lisa to do some integration with MoI, but the only support is STL (yours does a great job, and I still have some research to do with the Lisa and STL) but they recommend against that mesh strategy. They dont do NURBS import and require rebuilding the model inside of Lisa.

Anyway, I understand that it wont be something you can/want to tackle with MoI. I was hoping it was some kind of quick tweek to your method, since it does such a powerful job already.

I suppose there's a reason all those others cost big dough. I'm a little miffed that our gov has developed a great one and gives it away in places, but wont let it go for us "little taxpayers".

But just imagine how much time it would take for me right now if I tried to tackle it myself...

I guess it would be possible if I completely stopped doing other things like modeling tools and stuff like that and only concentrated on making FEA tools for MoI, but because I don't have a lot of experience in that area, it's hard to imagine that I would come up with something useful without spending many many years working on it.

Maybe in the future I'll be able to have plug-ins for MoI and have some of those other companies that specialize in those kinds of tools to do plug-ins for them.

But just trying to support people doing plugins would probably be a full time job itself so even to do that right now I'd probably have to stop doing other kinds of work like modeling tools...

So using some other programs in combination with MoI is probably your best bet for this, at least for quite a long while to come.

If something like Rhino would be useful to you for things like FEA plug-ins, there isn't any reason to avoid it! :)

I mean I understand that it would be cool if MoI could do every single function that you needed, but keep in mind that I only have 24 hours in a day to do work... ;)

Yes Michael,
I misworded my intention. LISA is free and extensible and can act as client or server. I was looking to see if "I" could make the connection. Not really asking if you would do it for me. I just needed to ask if the meshing was possible with MoI. It is. As STL.

Thanks for that link. It's a cool program. Funny, I love his viewport. I think he made it with a product I'm evaluating right now.

I'm going to fool around with it a bit. The output is limited :o I can't catch a break! I'll see if I can dig anything out of it. I'll also have to look at his licensing scheme if I can find anything valuable in it.